What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

Morning all - I finally woke up to electricity this am! & internet! I have an awful lot to catch up on.

So I still have tons of yellow squash, I made some soup which is very good, it has lemon & hot sauce. I also made 2 tray of lasagna which we both think is DELISH! It called for cinnamon in the sauce (which is my tomatoes from last year) & I was very leary but I try to always follow a recipe the first time - it was so good! & neither of us really like cinnamon. All done on the generator, lol.

I have a few pics to share before I go catch up.

Oddball Brandy Boy - do I pick or not pick, lol

A swallowtail on my butterfly weed

Some black eyed susans I picked for my nephew & his girlfriend that just bought a house

Todays haul

My mutt Patrick, he's just too cute

Off to read a million pages...

 

[igorsMistress]

I harvested some large okra, which'll probably go in a gumbo.
My radishes are going to seed, and I just noticed some seed pods forming. Not too long until they're dry.
My cucumber plant is dying. It's lived a long, productive life.
I'm also trying to figure out what to do with all of these Roma tomatoes. Eugh. Some cherry tomatoes are ripening, and the beans are thriving.
I'm trying to strategize the harvesting of a baseball bat-sized zucchini (it's behind a huge garden spider, and I'm a bit freaked out by it).
Does anyone know what to do with an excess of Roma tomatoes? I can't can them, mind you.

Make sauce and freeze it. Freeze them and make sauce later. Thinly slice and dehydrate for tomato chips.

 

[Sueby]

Oh @karenerwin big hugs

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. Welcome to our newcomers to the thread. Finally got all the weed whacking and mowing done. Yay! I planted my black-eyed susans in my little flower bed in the front yard. I started a batch of pickles this morning. They are in the fridge wallowing in salt. Of course when I did my walk around the garden I found a nice sized cuke. That one is now hanging with the other slices in a salt bath. I picked a handful of cherry tomatoes, one roma, still finding bush beans, and picked 2 more okra. We are in the first day of what is likely to be another 4 day heatwave with temps 90 and above. At least the grass won't be growing too fast in this heat.. Thanks for reminding me of soup @Sueby. Zucchini soup and I can freeze it. Good to hear you got your electricity restored. I'll be staying indoors alot hanging with Mr. Air Conditioner today and likely all week. Have a great day everyone.

 

[WthrLady]

I was planning on making both pickled cabbage and sauerkraut with our cabbage and I've never done it before either, so what part of the process stunk so badly? You got me scared.
You might look into drying, or freezing them.

@karenerwin, My thoughts are with you and your mom. I'd say I'd been there but honestly, not being able to physically be there must make it even harder. Remember to take care of yourself, that will help both of you.

Thawed out a rabbit today and we're going to try Shake N Bake Bunny tomorrow, I can't wait! I still love shake n bake, I have the taste of an 8 year old.

Our crop of sunchokes looks like it'll be huge and I guess the best way to keep them is in the ground and dig them as we need them. You can pickle them too so I'll try that too. DP has wanted to be sure we can carry on if things go further south so the sunchokes look like a win. The greens work for fodder for both the rabbits and chickens and they all like them.

Welcome to the new folks, remember, we loves the pictures!

The actual smell of cut raw, out of the garden cabbage. I LOVE the smell of kraut and coleslaw. ( Can hardly stand to eat either) but I actually tossed 6 qts of shredded cabbage in the ditch last night. I ended up with a blasted headache from cutting cabbage and I felt green all night.

 

[Acre4Me]

The actual smell of cut raw, out of the garden cabbage. I LOVE the smell of kraut and coleslaw. ( Can hardly stand to eat either) but I actually tossed 6 qts of shredded cabbage in the ditch last night. I ended up with a blasted headache from cutting cabbage and I felt green all night.

In college microbiology class, we made sauerkraut in different teams and cultured it each week and analyzed the microbes as they change throughout the process. At the end of the term, professor held a cookout and we got to eat the finished sauerkraut we made. It was pretty interesting. Interesting that all microbes needed are present on the cabbage to begin with. shredding fresh cabbage inside isn't for the faint of heart. Hope you feel better.

 

[igorsMistress]

Good morning gardeners. @karenerwin Welcome to the newbies. @Sueby yay for electricity and internet! I watered the grass last night, figured out how long each of the greens planned for Fall will need until harvest and ordered 2 orange and 1 white bird of paradise through Amazon. I'm going to put those in the shade garden with the elephant ears. The Mexican poppies should go well in there and the glads as well. I don't think any of the plumbago are going to make it but whatever. For now I'm just maintaining until the weather cools. Have a great day all!

 

[Acre4Me]

a few pics:


many colors of eggs they are sitting on top of dried bean pods that need to be shelled.

Dried beans. These container hold 3 Cups each. Great productivity on the Black Turtle beans. Less happy with the navy bean (white). The brown ones are an Amish soup type, and the red/white are a nice creamy soup type called "Lena Cisco Bird Egg" which we have grown before and enjoy. There was 5 days of rain, upon rain, so the drying pods got pretty wet and some beans started to sprout in the pods! They were tossed. Although the pods look spotted with mold, the beans inside are fine. I leave them to further dry in the a/c and dehumidified environment of the house before sealing them into the containers.

 

[WthrLady]

In college microbiology class, we made sauerkraut in different teams and cultured it each week and analyzed the microbes as they change throughout the process. At the end of the term, professor held a cookout and we got to eat the finished sauerkraut we made. It was pretty interesting. Interesting that all microbes needed are present on the cabbage to begin with. shredding fresh cabbage inside isn't for the faint of heart. Hope you feel better.

Thanks. I'm good today. I'm very sinus sensitive. Perfumes and body sprays can send me to the nearest trashcan, and don't even get me started on the smell of fish frying.....

I can find mildew/mold at 2 miles. A snootfull of burning leaves is a promise of a full day in a dark room and lots of meds.... I swear.......

I could smell a dirty baby diaper before the little rascal made a boom boom. HA!

 

[WthrLady]

a few pics:


many colors of eggs they are sitting on top of dried bean pods that need to be shelled.
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Dried beans. These container hold 3 Cups each. Great productivity on the Black Turtle beans. Less happy with the navy bean (white). The brown ones are an Amish soup type, and the red/white are a nice creamy soup type called "Lena Cisco Bird Egg" which we have grown before and enjoy. There was 5 days of rain, upon rain, so the drying pods got pretty wet and some beans started to sprout in the pods! They were tossed. Although the pods look spotted with mold, the beans inside are fine. I leave them to further dry in the a/c and dehumidified environment of the house before sealing them into the containers.
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I still am on the prowl for white knuckle beans. I lost my ONE envelope of seeds